Cormorant (Cormorant) Medium Count, Ming Geng Directed to "Quanzi Dummy"

Cormorant (Cormorant) in the count

Ming Geng directs "QuanZi Dummy"

【Original】

Man has a pond of fish, and the bitter flock of ducks steals and pecks at it, but the bunch of grass is a man: a cloak, a hat, a rod, and a pond of plants to deter it.

The flock of ducks did not dare to go down at the beginning of the flight, and had gradually examined and pecked.

For a long time, shi fei stopped on the Kasa, and was not alarmed.

The one who has seen the man steals the sword, and wears the cloak and the hat, and in the standing pool, the bird still pecks and flies as before.

Man clings to his feet with his hands, and the ducks cannot take off. ("Kwon Son Dummy")

【Translation】

In ancient times, there was a man, there was a fish pond in the family, a group of cormorants (commonly known as water crows, good at diving and fishing) often came to his family's fish pond to secretly peck at the fish, which made him very distressed, which made him very headache, so he tied a dummy with grass, and dressed the dummy as: wearing a cloak (raincoat made of grass or brown wool), wearing a bucket hat (bamboo grate and other hats) on his head, and inserted the dummy wearing a bamboo pole into the middle of the fish pond and set up in the fish pond to scare the cormorant.

The cormorants saw it, and at first they only flew around the fish pond, flying around the fish pond, and did not dare to come down immediately; later, they gradually observed the doorway, saw the bottom details, and flew down to the fish pond unscrupulously to continue pecking at the fish.

Over time, they often stayed on the bucket and stood on the bamboo pole safely, not afraid of dummies at all.

Seeing this, the man secretly took the straw man away, removed the dummy, and personally put on a cloak and a bucket hat, still standing where the dummy was originally erected.

The cormorants also flew down to peck at the fish as usual, and then flew to the bucket as usual.

As soon as the man reached out, he grabbed his foot, and the cormorant could not escape if he wanted to, and could no longer get out.

【Appreciation】

Cormorants are intelligent, they know how to recognize what is an illusion, they are not scared away by the dummy; the cormorant is stupid because they do not know change, see things with an unchanging eye, make empirical mistakes, and end up falling into a second trap and being caught casually.

It enlightens us that everything in the world is in constant development and change, we can not look at the problem with a fixed vision, we must observe carefully, adapt to changes, and flexibly deal with and respond to various situations as the situation changes.

Quan Zi, written by Ming Geng, is only one volume.

Geng Zhi (1524 ~ 1596 AD), also known as Zailun, was a native of Huang'an, Hubei (present-day Hong'an County, Hubei), a ming jiaqing jinshi, and an official to hubu shangshu. He is the author of "Geng Tiantai Anthology".